Recently, we built the last bison feeding rack, which was foreseen in the project. During the project, we have built a total of 22 feeding racks. Bison is fed every year in them in the winter season. This allows them to be pulled away from farmlands, helping to reduce damage to crops. Moreover, the...

Drawno group was established at the beginning of 2017. One of the females named "Rzepa" from the Dobrzany herd contributed to its creation. After immobilizing her and setting up a telemetry collar, she "escaped" to the Drawsko herd's area. Then the female, taking with her a few bison from the Drawsk...

In 2017, on the border of the Dobrzany and Drawno Forest Districts, a new bison group was formed. Establishment of the herd began with an escape of a 2.5 year old cow named "Wariatka" from the Jałowcówka herd. She was transported to the newly created herd in Jałowcówka from the Mirosławiec herd. Unf...

Shortly after the formation of the group in Trzcianka, a new herd was established in the Smolarz Forest District in the Lubuskie Voivodship. A few individuals from the group in Trzcianka began to wander west of the area they occupied. The bison reached the areas of the Smolarz Forest District where...

The newly formed group of bison has a quite interesting history because it was created thanks to the high activity of the Kajka's cow. A female from the Drawsko herd was transported to the Jałowcówka group, in which there was no experienced leading cow. After some time, Kajka started the journey to...

This year, another two bison were released. Mrówka's young - Mirlotka and Szantrapa's young - Pocisk. Calves were released into the wild living herd on the Drawsko training ground. A telemetry collar was set up on Mirlotka, thanks to which we will be able to monitor its development in the new herd...

The Regional Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Szczecin has already twice supported the implementation of the LIFE13 NAT/PL/000010 project Diversification and development of the European bison population in north-western Poland. In the period 2016-2017, Western Pomeranian Nut...

On 15th March 2018, in the Wild Farm in Jabłonowo, the penultimate workshops organized as part of the LIFE13 NAT/PL/000010 project "Diversification and development of the European bison population in north-western Poland" took place. The workshop was attended by foresters from RDSF, whose areas incl...

On 13th February 2018, two workshop sessions took place in the Wild Farm under the LIFE13 NAT/PL/000010 project "Diversification and development of the European bison population in north-western Poland". They were organized for the local community and 60 farmers took part in them. The first part of...

On 7-9 February 2018, we traveled to Germany to Trippstadt, where the project LIFE13 NAT/DE/000755 "Reintroduction of lynx in the Palatinate Forest Biosphere Reserve" is being implemented. As currently, apart from the project carried out in Romania, no other ongoing LIFE project concerns the protect...

The Jałowcówka herd was established in 2016 as part of the LIFE project "Diversification and development of the European bison population in north-western Poland". At the beginning, the group was created from 8 individuals from the Mirosławiec and Drawsko herds. In the spring of 2017, two calves bor...

By the end of April each year, you may decide to donate 1% of your tax to a public interest organization. We heartily encourage everyone who wants to help protect and get to know nature of West Pomerania for transferring 1% of their tax to the Western Pomeranian Natural Society. If you want to suppo...

We are pleased to inform you that on 15 th December 2017, in the Wild Farm in Jabłonowo, another information conference about the LIFE project "Diversification and development of the European bison population in north-western Poland" took place. The event was attended by the most important Polish bi...

 On the occasion of the upcoming Christmas, we send you the best wishes:

On 1st December 2017, in the District Office of Gorzów Wielkopolski, a meeting under the name "Wild animals do not know borders" was held. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Polish and German sides. The Polish side was represented by representatives of: Regional Directorate of State...

On 22th November this year, we met with the second ongoing bison LIFE project conducted in Romania 'Urgent actions for the recovery of European Bison populations in Romania'. A report on this visit is available at: https: //rewildingeurope.com/blog/polish-and-romanian-life-bison-project-members-meet...